Tampa Bay Rays News and Links: A Modest Proposal

Everyday for the Rays right now is the NotGreatBob.gif

Thursday was a brutal day start to end with weird, bizarre news of partially losing the team, to a nail bitting game that almost resulted in a heroic victory to snap a 3 game losing streak, to actually instead blow a 3 run lead and get walked off to start a very tough road trip.

Rays News

• Rays to explore splitting games with Montreal - Jeff Passan, ESPN
• Rays to split season between St. Pete and Montreal? Don’t count on it - Noah Pransky, Florida Politics
• Don’t count on it you say? Well let’s just ask the Mayor of St Pete...oh he already said it’s stupid

• 5 quick questions about the Rays’ proposal to play in Montreal - Michael Bradburn and Jason Wilson, The Score
• If the Montreal idea is bogus, what are the Rays really thinking? - John Romano, Tampa Bay Times
• Say Hello to the Ex-Rays: MLB’s Tampa Bay–Montreal Split Is a Bold, Nonsensical Idea - Michael Baumann, The Ringer

Okay, so the big stadium news thing was weird and annoying and strange and honestly, it’s better to just focus on real baseball on a field right now. Surely that will provide us with the much needed distraction.

• Rays’ struggles continue with loss on walk-off HR - Chris Haft, MLB.com: What almost became a much needed comeback, 9th inning victory was a truly gut-punch of a loss.
• Inside Rays clubhouse, potential split home schedule between Tampa Bay and Montreal is surprising, but ‘so far ahead of us’ - Eduardo A. Encina, Tampa Bay Times
• Rays hope Alvardo avoids rehab games - Chris Haft, MLB.com

Around the League

• Atlanta Braves | What Girls Are Made Of :60 (Summer 2019) - Fantastic ad from the Braves.
• The Mets have a new pitching coach, and he’s 82 years old.
• Just when I want to walk away from baseball forever, you read something like this and realize you can’t quit this weird, stupid, silly little game: